Henry Smith, the Tory MP for Crawley, said the government should consider classing the pens as offensive weapons.

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Doctors can bring surgery forward by classing the patient an emergency but the patient would still be responsible for payment.

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In the last year the number of confirmed cases has risen from 6 to 59, classing it as an outbreak.

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Wales is the least ethnically diverse area among the areas covered by the census, which also includes the English regions with 93% classing themselves as white, down from 96% in 2001.

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